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50 meter? Why not use an Ethernet cable? It supports 100 meter. I would MUCH rather have a hard line out there. I have plenty of 6A. I'm mainly worried I'd run in to some of the other burried lines (power, water, sewage) and big roots from an old red oak out there. A lot less worry to just go wirel...

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60ghz sound like a overkill. If you have already wap ac mounted on house wall you can mount another one on shop wall and create PTP link that way. Then run wire inside shop and do AP deployment as you need. 50m should be fine for wap ac, in 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands. I didn't realize they could be used...

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I have a small shop about 50m behind my house. I have a wAP ac pointing toward the shop that gives good coverage in the backyard and fairly good inside the shop. However, there are some weak spots, and I just put a couple Ring Stick-Ups out there and the connection is intermittent. It looks like one...

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Apologies for the delayed response: learning has taken a great deal longer than planned. Very much appreciate your responses. You have gotten me on the right track. Very much improved. Even if I still have much to learn. I'm glad to have veered toward capsman. I now think I would have been chasing r...

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I think it's an extension. I've been going through them and it seems like it is the Pieces.app extension.

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Having trouble with the forums lately. Pages won't fully load, getting Unresponsive Page warnings, in Chrome. One of my posts in particular triggers it (https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=186228), maybe because of images? Sometimes if I get and Unresponsive warning, it also list other Mikrot...

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You have exposed serial numbers and google dns username and password... Sanitized. Thanks. Need to remove that anyway. Now using Cloudflare with a ddns update utility in a docker on my server. Are the serial numbers in comments at top of export bad to post? If so why are they still exported? I clea...

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These problems are greatly reduced when you put the access points under Capsman control. OK. This is my plan today. So far... this plan is failing at step 1. Your point: You just have no idea how WiFi works. mmm, may have some merit. For the moment. Okwy, not exactly failed at step 1, but my experi...

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Have you played with transmission power? Especially on the 2,4GHz radio?

No, I haven't modified transmission power on either AP's radios. I haven't modified any of the advanced settings. Just a basic setup. Do they need to be adjusted?

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In the Family Room where I’m testing, where the problems are most noticeable, I’m getting -55 dBm on 2.4 GHz on the Audience, -75 dBm on 5 GHz. Since cutting the radios on the wAP AC, speed has been great on the Audience, back to normal. However, I occasionally lose wifi momentarily. Maybe it’s jump...

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Definitely still broke. Speed Test on wired desktop: 357.6 Down 79.9 Up Speed Test on wireless iPad: 0.19 Down 28.5 Up Why is it primarily affecting Down speed? Edit: scratch that. After multiple runs it is variously affecting up/down/both. Inconsistent but still abysmal down. EDIT 2: OK. I think I ...

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@simsrw73 Why did you limit an interface with 13 registered clients to a useful speed of about 15-20 mbit/s? Whereas in the standard n can be 180-200 mbit/s. I think this is the main reason The screenshot shows how to enable the air scanner. That's a great question. A better question is why I didn'...

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Are you using WifiWave2 on the Audience?

Not yet. It's been on my very long list of things to try/learn. Now might be a good time to check on that...

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I'm not familiar with all the tools related to wifi. I did use the Freq scan to select the channels for my two existing APs: an Audience (channel 1) and an wAP AC (channel 6) on the Patio. Here are snapshots of the freq, & reg dialogs for each. I do need to go ahead and run the cable and install...

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How can I go about determing the reason for degraded wifi performance? Specifically, internet speed-that's all that the connection is used for is internet. I'm not certain how to just test the connection speed. I have an Audience in my house and used to get great reception all over the house. I have...

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curious sometimes the router shows you red text when an error has been made,,,,,,, guess not in this case....... sometimes its at a relate entry like dhcp server etc.... I agree, it should at least complain when the lowest or highest address in a block is used for an interface address, unless mask ...

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Here's the router config: /ip address add address=192.168.99.1/24 interface=vlan-base network=192.168.99.0 add address=192.168.101.1/24 interface=vlan-guest network=192.168.101.0 add address=192.168.107.1/24 interface=vlan-iot network=192.168.107.0 add address=192.168.9.11/24 interface=ether7-Acces...

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(1) Small point on input chain...... add action=accept chain=input comment="Allow VLAN_BASE" in-interface=\ vlan-base log=yes log-prefix=BASE Should it not be in-interface -list =BASE and not in-interface=vlan-base ? IF you want to be able to access the config from the ether7-access, the ...

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I cannot get anything to work. I posted on several Windows forums and got zero help. I'm not totally convinced it is a Windows issue. Maybe in part... I set both Windows machines to Private Network & Disabled Windows Firewall completely on private network. Nothing I put a Raspberry Pi on the Se...

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I cannot get anything to work. I posted on several Windows forums and got zero help. I'm not totally convinced it is a Windows issue. Maybe in part... I set both Windows machines to Private Network & Disabled Windows Firewall completely on private network. Nothing I put a Raspberry Pi on the Ser...

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YES check pc software firewall rules, or server rules......... doesnt appear to be MT related. However, since all the other ports are TRUNK Ports, that means you have smart devices attached that are dispensing and untagging vlans to dumb devices. Thus who knows what is going on there. :-) Haven’t h...

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Firstly please dont make a silly rule like all vlans to see all vlans. Use something that makes sense perhaps from your base vlan (trusted) you want to be able to access all vlans. add chain=forward action=accept in-interface=vlan-base out-interface-list=VLAN OR making a shared printer on the base ...

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You should use as many vlans as you require to separate subnets and users/devices. No more no less!! Yeah your rules are a bit of a mess, not too bad but need some cleaning up. However, you need to provide the full config to do so. Thanks, anav. All my configs & diagrams/charts are linked at th...

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I was having fun with my "homelab", learning about docker, throwing up container after container in my "server" (reverse proxy, home assistant, wiki.js, etc.) when I decided I needed to deal with the Hairpin NAT issue. Reading around on past threads it sounded like I should move ...

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Any chance that WinBox will be made available in the Windows package manager, WinGet? I know it's available in scoop (which I use and love), but it would be handy to also have in WinGet.

Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... r/package/

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Trying RC3 on CRS328, I'm still not able to connect with SFP+, only one way communication seems to be occurring: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=182513#p908420 Is this a known issue? Do I need to have RC3 also on RB5009? I can connect the RB5009 to my CRS112, so transceivers and fiber are...

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Looked in this forum and the 328 has problems with SFP under ROS7. If you are on that version then try if 1G speed works. The cable pictured swaps, so that is good. Hadn't seen that yet on the forums, but I did just try connecting RB5009 to my CRS112 and it does work; no auto-negotiation, 1GB. But ...

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I can't if you have a pair of fibers. If you have a SFP with an Rx and Tx then you have swap the fibers at one end. RX -- TX TX -- RX The transceivers I have are the 10gtek suggested by anav above. The cable is a monoprice cable (https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=6385). The cable does crossove...

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Well, got the kit, but I can't seem to make it work. There is a connection, but it seems to be one-way. RB5009 is TX but not RX; while the CRS328 is RX but not TX. I've tried with auto-negotiation on/off, different speeds, but it's only one-way. RB5009 shows status as Enabled / Running / Slave / Lin...

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Thanks for the info and recommendations! I’ve put in my order and looking forward to testing it out. Thanks.

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How to connect my RB5009 to my CRS328-24P-4S+ (within the same rack)? I'm up and running with standard Cat6, but I'm trying to learn about SFP modules and which to use. Looking at the list of them on MikroTik site is intimidating and unhelpful. I don't know where to start or what to look for. Copper...

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smyers119 said: I am not sure how to help you from here, in the linux world (iptables) I would add the TRACE action to the raw table to follow the path of the packet's. I don't think you can do that with mikrotik. I am running 7.1.1 on a rb4011 and I am not able to reproduce your problem anav said:...

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On my IP cloud TIME is NOT I repeat NOT enabled. Are all you switches and access points (assuming smart devices) get their IP from the management vlan or trusted vlan? The mode for clients should be unicast and the server should be the gateway of the management vlan or trusted vlan. I've tried with...

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remove this rule: add action=drop chain=input comment="Drop everything else" Tried this, but no change. The only other difference I see is that my estab/related rule also allows untracked, which is the default config. Try adding that to your estab/related rule. Also, no change here.

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1. Is NTP enabled (lol) 2. Do the addresses you put in there resolve to IP addresses? They should if connectivity is made. 3. If not perhaps the clue is DNS issues. 4. Mode on ntp client is unicast 5 NTP SERVER is enabled and manycast selected. 6. Date is accurate on the router? For me the biggest ...

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what does /system/ntp monitor-peers show? On my router: /system/ntp monitor-peers type="multicast-server" address=224.0.1.1 type="ucast-client" address=74.6.168.73 refid="" stratum=16 hpoll=17 ppoll=0 root-delay=0 ms root-disp=0 ms offset=0 ms delay=0 ms disp=15937.5 m...

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Far stretch but I ran into the same problem last weekend messing with my lab setup. Are you sure dns is working ? No dns. No resolve. No ntp. /system/ntp/client/servers print detail Flags: X - disabled; D - dynamic 0 address=0.north-america.pool.ntp.org resolved-address=159.203.82.102 min-poll=6 ma...

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I cannot get NTP client working. I had this setup on my hEX S before upgrading to the rb5009 and implementing a VLAN config. I've tried several time servers and I'm pretty sure I've set it up as I had it before and made a firewall rule to open that port. But my router hangs listening for the remote ...

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This is dumb and not a MT issue. My Amazon Alexa devices want to keep jumping networks and deleting the network settings on Amazon's site does not seem to work. So I want to limit Alexa to interfaces: wlan-2g-iot & wlan-5g-iot. I am not understanding this statement. Your Alexa devices will only...

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The act of removing the check from the checkbox from forwarding on the main Wireless settings TAB means that the WIFI clients are isolated from each other, regardless of being in the same subnet(VLAN). However, for example this does not mean they are separated from wired clients on the same VLAN. A...

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https://github.com/simsrw73/documents/tree/main/smart-home Guest VLAN Isolation: Reading articles and posts, it's recommended to set default-forwarding to no and add a firewall rule. My testing seems to indicate that this is redundant. Is this correct? /interface wireless add default-forwarding=no ...

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I understand, you need at least 2 vlan to test/learn bridge filtering Here is a very basic exemple on the hEXs with 2 vlans Thank you! Thank you!!! This taught me a lot. I still have some questions, but I'm going to play around with it now and see what I can figure out. It's hard to learn without a...

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@simsrw73: May I ask why you are so keen to use the "bridge vlan filtering" Feature ? Because, For a small SOHO-Network this Feature isn't necessary, when the Guest-Network is only provided over Wireless & Vlan. The Step-by-Step guide i gave you works just fine... The Step-by-Step you...

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Many ways to create and assign Clients to a "Guest" Network. In this exemple a used a "Virtual" Wireless-Interface with a dedicated SSID Thank you! This is a great first step. This is tremendously helpful. Most of these steps are familiar from my previous attempts. I suspect on ...

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I can't find anything anywhere that tells how this is supposed to work. Is there somewhere or someone that can just show me the most basic, most primitive example of a working VLAN configuration, using bridge vlan filtering? You can start from the links below: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.p...

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A month on and off trying to figure out VLANs and nothing. I can't find anything anywhere that tells how this is supposed to work. Is there somewhere or someone that can just show me the most basic, most primitive example of a working VLAN configuration, using bridge vlan filtering? Scenario: One ro...

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I'm sure it's the management vlan stuff that's blowing me up. I've read and reread all the posts here and the docs referred, but I'm still not getting my head around it. I very much appreciate all the help and I know it's pointing me in the right direction, but not enough for me to wrap my head arou...

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nettest.png I'm trying to get the most minimal configuration possible working. I just have PC, hEX S router & CRS113 switch, setting aside the Audience & wAP AC for now. On the router & switch, I have default configuration (I can do this part manually and at least feel comfortable with ...

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Did you read document linked by @anav in post #2 above? That document explains how VLANs are done in RouterOS in depth. Until you understand that document you probably won't be able to configure whatever you want to have done ... or at least you won't understand why things are done in certain way. ...

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I am utterly confused and don't know how to learn this stuff. I have worked as a professional programmer, fluent in over half a dozen programming languages. I've learned in a few weeks to build IOT devices with microcontrollers and design simple circuits. But I cannot find any solid docs or relevant...

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Thanks for the pointer, but I'm still not getting it. I've worked through training courses on Udemy, watched I-don't-know-how-many videos on YouTube, poured through the docs and posted on other forums. I cannot figure this out. Or even figure out where it is I'm supposed to go to learn this. I've be...

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I'm lacking the correct terminology to find documentation/tutorials that I need. I have a non-wireless router (hEX S) and two wireless APs (Audience & wAP). I've played around with them a ton and learned a lot about basic configuration & security. Now I'm trying to learn about VLANs to add g...

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On the removable lid, you can break-off on of four thingamajig's =) It does have four thingamajigs, and from the inside they almost look like break-away tabs, but the outside isn't scored. I can take it out with a drill if that's the correct entry port. I just wanted to make sure before I start mod...

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Ok, this is probably the stupidest question I've asked on any forum ever. I've got my wAP ac mounted on a pole, my network cable plugged in, everything up, testing, running great. Um, how do I route the cable into the box? Am I supposed to drill an access hole? Maybe I'm just really tired and missin...

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Just following up to say that the unit was defective. Amazon replaced it quickly and the new unit fired up and connected immediately. Very happy with the performance so far, though I'm very sure that I have much to learn on setting it up proper and optimizing it.

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Thanks, but I haven't been able to get this device to respond at all. Neither wifi nor ethernet cable direct to PC, setting static IP as per instructions. Windows shows Cable Unplugged. Nothing on the browser. WinBox neighbors & netinstall don't see it. I can sometimes get a ping, but at best, i...

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I just got an Audience to add wifi to my network. However, when I turn it connect it to the internet, and power it up it does not show up on any of my wifi devices (iPad, Android phone). It does power up. Ethernet port blinking. I tried resetting (hold reset and plug-in power until the light on the ...

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I have a small home with an unattached shop in the backyard, about 30m distance. I'm not familiar with the options and there are a lot of hardware options listed. What do I need to get a signal to the shop and then provide wifi access there? Additionally, I'd like to also provide coverage throughout...

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